Member list gone?

What happened to the ability to see the page with all the members, that you could order by name, join date, post count, etc.? Was it removed deliberately? I can't imagine that there's any privacy issue there, since they're just nicknames. So...what's up?

It's apparently some sort of privacy issue. I guess CN considers the # of users and the # of subscribers to be sensitive data and its apparently a big list of valid usernames for people to try and find weak passwords for.

I want to add back the user search option, but its not easy to turn off some parts of that page (and the permissions to use that page are lumped together with the users online and profile view permissions).

It's apparently some sort of privacy issue. I guess CN considers the # of users and the # of subscribers to be sensitive data and its apparently a big list of valid usernames for people to try and find weak passwords for.

Ah, fair enough. Pity, though.

EDIT: Huh, it's back, sort of. If you click a user's name to see their profile, change the, "Groups", drop-down to, "Registered Users", and click, "Go", there's the list. You might want to restrict that.

It's apparently some sort of privacy issue. I guess CN considers the # of users and the # of subscribers to be sensitive data and its apparently a big list of valid usernames for people to try and find weak passwords for.

Ah, fair enough. Pity, though.

EDIT: Huh, it's back, sort of. If you click a user's name to see their profile, change the, "Groups", drop-down to, "Registered Users", and click, "Go", there's the list. You might want to restrict that.

I was the one who sent Dotorg a message and have sent several PM's since the new system with no problem. Running the latest version of Chrome at home and at work Firefox 3.6.4 currently. I can't remember if I was on my laptop or not when I pm'ed Do yesterday.

The "system change" being referred to by this thread has since been reverted back to its original behavior. If you can't PM, it's not directly because of this issue (when you couldn't PM because of this change, it was because you couldn't see user profiles at all).

I don't know why the "Email x" link directs you to complain in this thread. I guess since that's a privacy issue, and the change mentioned in this thread was a privacy issue, they're somehow related...

There is no longer a public/private email option in the forum like we had with Groupee as far as I can see. Given that, there's no way we're going to expose everyone's email publicly. So the answer is you're probably never going to see that email option do anything. Use a PM is probably the solution.

I was about to explain the situation but I realised I already did, in March (see the second post). As far as I know, nothing as changed:

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CN considers the # of users and the # of subscribers to be sensitive data

By that I mean, confidential data that they'd rather not expose, for whatever reason.

But you're still exposing that data. You've just made it a little harder to get to.

(And, yes, I reported the flaw that exposes that data back in March, when this issue was still actively being discussed (as opposed to the user email issue that this thread has turned into). It's still there.)